Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
About the Book Series
This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.
Post-Fukushima Activism: Politics and Knowledge in the Age of Precarity
1st Edition
By Azumi Tamura
August 14, 2020
Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary society. In Japan, the search for the ‘outside’ of a stagnant reality sometimes leads marginalised young people to a disastrous image of social change. The Fukushima nuclear disaster was the realisation of such an image, triggering the largest...
Democracy Beyond the Nation State: Practicing Equality
1st Edition
By Joe Parker
July 29, 2019
Democracy promises rule by all, not by the few. Yet, electoral democracies limit decision-making to representatives and have always had a weakness for inequality. How might democracy serve all rather than the few? Democracy Beyond the Nation State: Practicing Equality examines communities that ...
Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan: The (Bio)Power of Structure
1st Edition
By A. Kiarina Kordela
July 16, 2019
A. Kiarina Kordela steps beyond extant commentaries on Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism—from A. Sohn-Rethel to L. Althusser, É. Balibar, Slavoj Žižek, and others—to show that in capitalism value is the manifestation of the homology between thought and being, while their other aspect—power—is ...
A Conceptual Investigation of Justice
1st Edition
By Kyle Johannsen
July 12, 2019
Conceptual analysis has fallen out of favor in political philosophy. The influence of figures like John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin has led political philosophy to focus on questions about what should be done, and to ignore questions about the usage of words. In this book, Kyle Johannsen calls for ...
Compromise and Disagreement in Contemporary Political Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Rostboll, Theresa Scavenius
July 12, 2019
Until recently, discussions of compromise have been largely absent in political theory. However, political theorists have become increasingly interested in understanding the practice and justification of compromise in politics. This interest is connected to the increased concern with pluralism and ...
Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and “the Political”: Desire and Drive in the City
1st Edition
By Dan Webb
July 12, 2019
Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space. Because the city and urban space is so prominent in other critical disciplines, most notably,...
Democratic Political Tragedy in the Postcolony: The Tragedy of Postcoloniality in Michael Manley’s Jamaica and Nelson Mandela’s South Africa
1st Edition
By Greg A. Graham
July 12, 2019
A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora and beyond, Democratic Tragedy in the Postcolony engages with two of the defining political sagas of the postcolonial era. The book presents Michael ...
Reclaiming Representation: Contemporary Advances in the Theory of Political Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By Monica Brito Vieira
July 12, 2019
Representation is integral to the functioning and legitimacy of modern government. Yet political theorists have often been reluctant to engage directly with questions of representation, and empirical political scientists have closed down such questions by making representation synonymous with ...
Hugo Grotius and the Modern Theology of Freedom: Transcending Natural Rights
1st Edition
By Jeremy Seth Geddert
September 27, 2018
Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue. Yet critics often argue that this secular focus on merely avoiding violations can also enable unfettered individualism and undermine appeals to the common good. This book ...
Rethinking Utopia: Place, Power, Affect
1st Edition
By David M. Bell
August 14, 2018
Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in – or rather because of – the condition of ‘post-utopianism’ that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of the ...
Equality Renewed: Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal
1st Edition
By Christine Sypnowich
July 27, 2018
How should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of equality? In this book, Christine Sypnowich proposes a theory of equality centred on human flourishing or wellbeing. She argues that egalitarianism should be understood as seeking to make people more equal in the constituents of a ...
Claus Offe and the Critical Theory of the Capitalist State
1st Edition
By Jens Borchert, Stephan Lessenich
May 09, 2018
Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades, inspired and stimulated an international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. An academic debate which, ...